Amazon blamed human error for the disruption in its cloud services that resulted in widespread glitches for its clients from news sites to government services on Tuesday.
An incorrect command led to the removal of a larger set of servers than intended, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The disruption in the company's Simple Storage Service, or Amazon S3, lasted for more than 3.5 hours and impacted sending and receiving clients' data. The company said it will make changes to improve the recovery time of its key S3 subsystems. @Reuters The next big Windows 10 release, the Creators Update, will let you "snooze" the update for three days or pick your own restart date. Microsoft added an icon in the Windows Update Settings page that shows if your device is up-to-date. Once it arrives, you can schedule when to time it or simply snooze it for three days. Furthermore, you'll have more choice for the "active hours" when it absolutely can't do an update. Microsoft is also tweaking privacy settings, making it easier to pick the privacy and data collection settings that suit you. @Engadget Google Allo’s update brings an easier way to access GIFs, 10 new animated emoji and a shortcut to Google Assistant. Google is placing a button to access the Assistant right in the little box where you type out a message. Previously, you had to type “@google” in order to call up the Assistant. Alongside the Assistant button, Google also adds the ability to search for GIFs and to type “@lucky” followed by a search term to automatically pull up a GIF. @Engadget Google will release a new Pixel phone this year. it’ll remain “premium” in its next iteration, and Google isn’t interested in offering a low-cost version, preferring instead to let that segment be addressed by its external hardware partners. Google’s Pixel smartphone this year was a significant reset for the company’s mobile hardware strategy – and one that earned a lot of praise from customers and critics. @TechCrunch Google Home may get support for multiple user accounts. The code in the latest Google Home app contains references to a device being able to “recognize your voice” and needing to be trained, which suggests that user switching could happen by Google’s device identifying who’s speaking. It came out earlier this week that Amazon is working on getting Alexa to distinguish between voices, too. @TheVerge Japanese-based messaging app Line is building its own digital assistant called Clova with help from Sony and LG. Besides normal queries, Line is also promising Clova will be able to handle "complicated questions" and include a facial recognition aspect. It is also designed to work in third-party apps and hardware. Clova isn't scheduled for release until sometime in "early summer" of this year. @Engadget Maven, General Motors’ vehicle rental service, will now let you reserve a car for a whole month, parking and insurance included. Previously, Maven only offered hourly or daily pricing options for its car-sharing fleet. Customers will also receive a dedicated parking space and a personalized walk-through of the vehicle. Insurance and $100 worth of gas are also included, and there are no membership or application fees. Maven Reserve will only be available in LA and San Fransisco to begin with, although GM has plans to broaden it out later. @TheVerge Jeff Bezos also has plans to develop a lunar spacecraft with a lander named "Blue Moon." Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos wants to use that spacecraft to launch an Amazon-like shipping service that would deliver equipment needed to establish human settlements on the lunar surface by mid-2020s. It could also deploy rovers and scientific instruments meant to study Earth's natural satellite. Amazon has been circulating a seven-page white paper to NASA officials and Trump's transition team containing the project's details. @Engadget Apple's redesigned iPhone might not be ready in time for a September launch. Multiple supply chain watchers in recent weeks have said they believe production on the "OLED iPhone" will not start until September, which suggests the high-end iPhone "8" may not go on sale in September, as has been the case for years. Apple could debut all three devices in September, as it usually does, but only release the two iPhone 7 successors shortly thereafter, forcing customers to wait for the high-end iPhone 8. @BusinessInsider Virgin Galactic forms a new company Virgin Orbit for low-cost small satellite launches based on Virgin's LauncherOne system. LauncherOne uses a two-stage rocket dropped from a carrier aircraft. Its earlier iterations could only carry up to 500 pounds of payload. Orbit will use a modified Boeing 747 called "Cosmic Girl" that'll allow the system to ferry a bigger rocket with heavier cargo to Low Earth Orbit. This is the third private space companies Richard Branson’s VIrgin Group has. @Engadget Amazon might be working on its own home security camera. It's found the image of some sort of easily-positionable camera, with a blue light circling the lens, sitting on the Amazon's own web servers. It’s got a white exterior design — the central camera area is black — and a pivoting base. There are two mics at the top, and at each corner of the camera there are infrared sensors. @TheVerge
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Snap values itself at nearly $24B with its IPO pricing — the first tech IPO of 2017.
Snap has given a final price for its IPO, setting the company’s valuation at nearly $24 billion with a price of $17 per share. Snap will be raising nearly $3.4 billion in its IPO. Snap filed to go public in early February, showing a rapidly accelerating advertising business that went from $59 million in revenue in 2015 to nearly $400 million in 2016. @TechCrunch Oculus announced that they are slashing the prices of the Rift and Touch by $100 each, bringing the price to $598 for both. Part of this aggressive move is to drive more Rift users to Touch. Oculus also states that room-scale tracking on the Rift was going to be seeing some big improvements moving forward, and Oculus will continues to have Xbox One gamepad support. Mac support is still something Oculus is looking at, but it may not be coming for at least 6 months. @TechCrunch Chevrolet has become the first carmaker to offer an unlimited data plan with its cars. The deal, for a 4G LTE data plan, applies to cars sold in the US from 3 March and will cost $20 (£16) a month. It is being offered with the help of US carrier OnStar and will see vehicles fitted with a wi-fi hotspot that connects to the web via LTE. The system allows owners to connect up to seven devices at a time. @BBC Twitter partners with ESL and Dreamhack, two of the biggest organizations in the pro-gaming world, to stream live e-sports. Those broadcasts will start this Saturday, with Twitter streaming the ESL’s Intel Extreme Masters World Championship in Katowice, Poland, for free on its platform. Twitter says it already has more than 15 events locked in for live-streaming this year, including Dreamhack tournaments and future IEM championships. @TheVerge 'Overwatch' Season 4 brings a server browser that users can set their own parameters for how they want to play. You can customize everything from movement speed; hero abilities; map rotation; capture speed; ultimate abilities and a whole lot more for your perfect match. Also, High-ranking players (with ratings north of 3000) will have to compete in seven matches per week to maintain their ranking. @Engadget Spotify will offer lossless-quality music for $20 per month, rivaling Tidal. Both The Verge sources and Reddit members have discovered that Spotify is prepping its own lossless offering, Spotify Hi-Fi. There's no word as to when Hi-Fi would arrive -- Spotify isn't commenting beyond acknowledging that it's "always testing new products.” @Engadget Nvidia officially reveals its GeForce GTX 1080TI GPU for $699. The graphic card promises 35% faster performance than the GTX 1080, and "is even faster in games" than the Titan X, according to NVIDIA. The promotional page for the GPU compares its performance to the company's own GTX 980, showing performance upgrades better than double, and even triple in some cases. The GPU's official release is on March 10. @IGN Microsoft now lets anyone create and publish Xbox games with the new Xbox Live Creators Program. Before this, developers had to part of an established game development or media company, or they had to apply through Microsoft’s ID@Xbox indie game program to receive self-publishing capabilities.This new program has a one-time fee that ranges from $20 to $100. @TheVerge Microsoft plans to bring mixed reality to the Xbox in 2018. While its headsets are strictly for the PC right now, they will soon be coming to the Xbox -- as well as Microsoft's upcoming Project Scorpio console -- in 2018. Microsoft also showed off a developer edition of the Acer Windows "Mixed Reality" headset which ships to a few select developers later this month. @Engadget Gmail now lets you receive 50MB attachments. Unfortunately, sending mails remain capped at the same limit (25M) as before, with larger files only transmissible via Google Drive. The fact that the company has altered the size at all means that, hopefully, the rules will be relaxed even further in the future. @Engadget Yahoo hackers accessed 32 million accounts with forged cookies in the last two years. Yahoo said some of the latest intrusions can be connected to the “same state-sponsored actor believed to be responsible for the 2014 breach”, in which at least 500 million accounts were affected. Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer has given up a cash bonus from 2016 and a stock award for 2017, which seems to be worth about $14 million. @HuffingtonPost |
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